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Walter Dnes <waltdnes <at> waltdnes.org> writes: |
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> emerge sqlite |
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Yea, I should have been more clear. Already had sqlite installed |
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and quite a few apps are using it... |
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> If you want a GUI rather than command-line, try |
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> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/ |
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I'll have to look at this one. I went ahead and installed: |
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dev-db/sqlitebrowser |
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> You also mentioned "flash cookies" in passing. They're a totally |
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> different animal. They're files that reside in directories ~/.adobe and |
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> ~/.macromedia. The way to kill them is to remove the directories and |
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> create dummy files with the same names, so that Flash can't create the |
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> directories. Here's a short script... |
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Only those (2) apps have flash cookies? |
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Flashcookies are new issues for me. |
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What the heck are they being used by these apps? |
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Just to avoid detection and removal? |
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If so, it seems somebody would create and add_on to |
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deal with this crap or include this "cleansing" via |
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an establish security script......? |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> rm -rf ~/.adobe |
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> touch ~/.adobe |
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> rm -rf ~/.macromedia |
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> touch ~/.macromedia |
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OK, good explanation. |
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> The only problem is that certain sites won't play videos without those |
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> directories being present (e.g. video highlights at http://nhl.com ). I |
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> handle them with the following script... |
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> #!/bin/bash |
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> rm -rf ~/.adobe |
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> rm -rf ~/.macromedia |
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> sleep 20 |
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> rm -rf ~/.adobe |
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> touch ~/.adobe |
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> rm -rf ~/.macromedia |
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> touch ~/.macromedia |
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> I launch the script from a terminal, and then immediately click on the |
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> video link in my browser. This gets the videos going, and keeps them |
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> going until they finish. |
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Nice strategy. |
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Thanks! |